Great info, guys!
I have a question about the notching... Should the V-cut be oriented like in my drawing below? How wide and deep should the notch generally be? Should I be able to see the bright white innards of the rhizome when I made the notch?
Thanks!
Excellent photos Fred. Thanks!
Above the media? Interesting. I always bury mine back down to where any still-attached points are just emerging from the soil line.
Who thinks what about depth of notches? I've heard people say that you're supposed to cut half or more than halfway through, but then when I looked around the pretty ICPS articles I read said that something on the order of 5mm was called for. In my experience, most Sarr rhizomes are more than 10mm thick, so...
I've also had success with scars on the rhizome from pulling live leaves. I don't know if I've ever been so bold as to just cut rhizome with no leaves into sections and trust that they'll all take, though.
~Joe
I have not yet tried notching, but something that was said earlier got my attention.
I tend to do my "housekeeping" in late winter/early spring, and I also rip off the old, brown leaf stubs to make way for the new ones. I noticed the other day that on many of the rhizomes that I "stripped", there are a lot of little red buds sprouting out of the leaf scars.
This is something I'd like to try to deliberately re-create.
I can't wait to try it out tomorrow. How long (on average) does it usually take to see whether the notches were a success (see new growth)?